Roman Rhythm

[@bashkillszombies]

2:03 - A wild Roman appears. He uses misdirect, it's super effective!

[@zhenpov]

bashpr0mpt 😂😂😂😂😂

[@brettb9194]

Monty Python I his first and only campaign: killed by a housewife with a sling "stop that racket"

[@jackxiao1054]

monty python zoom out

[@justinaccount9920]

lets all thank the cameraman for going back in time and taking this awesome footage

[@jukeboxfandango]

every single performer sounded like they were handed the instrument for the first time 10 seconds before the camera was turned on

[@cupofshutupjuice]

No wonder the Roman empire crumbled. Everyone got tortured to death by the musicians.

[@brasschick4214]

To the brass players- you can get more than one note.

[@Cyberbeagle1000]

Dear lord those lyres wouldn't have entered anyone! It's a beautiful instrument when played properly. Also the Roman horns can produce amazing sounds too, not the strangled cat heard here!

[@markfelix8737]

I laughed so hard through this entire unintentional comedy routine. At least put a disclaimer *Not how it would have sounded.

[@view1st]

Everyone of those instruments needed tuning.

[@scottsterling7659]

John Roberts true

[@brettb9194]

yes, they're making a racket, it really looks down on the abilities of the ancients I'm thinking the local centurion heard them carrying on like that he'd have them off to the circus

[@A_29886]

Sounds it. But rome was also prior to the first documentation of 12 tone equal temperament so never know.

[@thekarnyx]

No, they don't need, tempered tuning wasn't invented until the late 1600s, back then they used to use Pythagorean tuning, which for today's standards sounds wrong. They are meant to sound like that, just like bagpipes and Arab music, for example, is meant to sound "untuned", they use a different tuning method. Instruments that are slightly "untuned" have a special, human and non-artificial like charm that I really dig into

[@kaziiqbal7257]

Tempered tuning may not have been invented but most of these instruments work fundamentally the same way as they do now. Maybe some of them have a bit of excuse but the brass lads surely don’t.

[@vlsproductions330]

It's pretty depressing when legionaries are moving in formation and a sad excuse of a horn blow begins wailing.

[@bluegent7]

@Michelle Fong They gave certain tones and rythms as codes. They had to be definite, strong and coordinated. This video is parodic and misinforming. How can people even believe that this is what it sounded like? Do they think the Romans just crawled out of a primeval soup and this is all their flabby fish mouths and brains were capable of? Is this how a massive, highly efficient army, ruling the world, was directed? No, documents tell otherwise. By Jove, all you need is reason, to know and understand.

[@kaziiqbal7257]

@Michelle Fong but they literally used flutes as signaling instruments so there’s your point dead in a ditch

[@Smitty-hr2mg]

Imagine taking a leisurely summer stroll through the fields when a roman centurion pops out of the grass and starts badly blaring a trumpet at you.

[@hansgaita4063]

😂😂 Oh, wonderful involuntary humour! Thanks!!! 🤣 The unnerving annoying street "musician" was the best, but I've enjoyed very much that Monty Python flair of the whole video.

[@coachking5208]

It's little wonder why they were so violent. Listening to that would drive one nutty!

[@kaziiqbal7257]

For those of you saying that it’s just a historical demonstration and it doesn’t matter if they play it well, you won’t be so sure about that when a civil war reenactor pours black pepper down his rifle instead of black powder.

[@antonidas3027]

Thank you so much for showing us what instruments were used in ancient Rome, and how they sound. I'm writing now music in ancient Rome style, and it can really help me knowing more about this epoch.

[@Cyberbeagle1000]

I wouldn't start here if I were you...

[@ahvavee]

The guy standing up in the meadow made me think of a possible monty python sketch.

[@thevalarauka101]

can't help but notice the way they're playing the tympanum, looks quite similar to the modern bodhrán

[@GaitaPonto]

Was this directed by Monty Python?

[@Ibiracatu]

No wonder Rome fell! If they all played that bad ; }

[@jayh9529]

Sledcat that's why it fell

[@wilsonmathew7168]

lol true

[@vrai3078]

lyres were not tuned to the major scale, they were tuned in a tetrachordal system that had smaller intervals we in modern times don't recognize,like certain half sharp intervals within their scales.In this regard this is incredibly inaccurate, not to mention how I would certainly question if these people at this exhibit are really even musicians -_-

[@zana5027]

Thank you for showing us what music was like in ancient Rome. My students love this video.

[@MikeH-sg2ue]

Those Romans rocked!

[@BlancaBelbruno]

ESTO ES VER TRADICION Y IDIOMA DE COMO LLEGAR SIN PRESENCIA Y SEAN AVISADOS .!!!SOYdesendiente de Italianos y 3spañoles y debia escuchar las maneras de llegar la 8nterpretacion.! Gracias esto es muy conmovedor y ver las trincheras....blancaArgentina.😢

[@BlancaBelbruno]

MUY BUEN ESCENARIO ARTE DE OBRA COMPLETO!!!!!

[@McPruden]

3:45 great trip!

[@tiggergolah]

Thanks for posting this. Very interesting.

[@KeystoneRecce]

Gracchus, something more cheerful!

[@pocketcloud4930]

There's no way you're going to convince me thousands of years of humans playing instruments before the Romans, only resulted in the racket.

[@mariagraziazollo9180]

Very interesting! The arcane sounds of ancient Rome! I share on FB

[@markfeldhaus1]

Tuning is much more complicated than the layman believes as scales are more multiple than most people are aware of and methods of tuning have changed over time. Present day piano tuning is always a little out of tune in order to facilitate playing in all keys.

[@LehySnek]

Those romans look like they're from Manchester... xD

[@whiteknightcat]

LOL

[@crazyleyland5106]

Anywhere with "chester" in the name had a Roman fort.

[@elixxur]

I feel like I am watching a dnd or larping thing

[@agenthunk5070]

why is it in Rome II and Attila as Roman Empire the horn sounds more deeper and echoing on a battlefield with a longer carry when it sounds off?but here it sounds like it is weak....

[@fish4225]

Because these people can't play

[@agenthunk5070]

@@fish4225 no,I'm talking about the game sounds.the unit horns....hell even movie horns don't sound as good as this game.

[@fish4225]

@@agenthunk5070 Good sound mixing? Professional players? Nistalgia? Idk dude I don't even know what game you're talking about.

[@skyhr]

This is why Rome didn't lose gentlemen.... This... right here...

[@snafuart]

I deeply doubt that the quality of some instruments showed was that bad (especially at sound) as you displayed here. There are more accurate rebuilds played by musicians on YT sounding far better.

[@adewolaogunsakin3110]

Lyra, kithara, pan pipes, corn, tuba, lituus, sistrum, tympanum

[@ryandepp7640]

Great music!

[@NepetaLeijon]

this is fuckin awesome

[@trap-du3hd]

all music in ancient times sounded like a child practicing

[@nivek326]

trap3400 it's because all the people they had "play" had never picked up a trumpet or anything like before, they are all beginners

[@tauceti8341]

This is completly inaccurate lookup "Allous by Callum Armstrong". You are so wrong. They were very skilled. Historians look through a keyhole and interpret. Callum, on the other hand, shatters this notation entirely. If you are not moved by his ancient greek allows playing then you are not human.

[@kaziiqbal7257]

No, it’s just that these guys really suck

[@thomasimalski7580]

Musicians in the arena🦁🦁🦁 , especially the scarecrows in white😂😂😂

[@knightstemplar4274]

This looks like it was done in there backyard.

[@Sam-lp6sj]

The best part is how committed they were to getting dressed up, while they play absolutely garbage music out of tune with no rhythm lol. So much effort into the look then the music is just like wtf hahahaha! That last guy on the drum too, omg. This is hilarious

[@ktt86j616]

1:33

[@wurzelfix]

the trumpet sounds like a dying elephant....🤣🤣🤣

[@McPruden]

Um romano a sair por detrás de uma moita com uma tuba... Aos 2:03...

[@vetta-s-privet0m]

Да уж лира, три аккорда два десятка струн. Во дворе подростки на гитаре и то лучше лабают... Тяжко было жить в римской империи , сколько пиров и на каждом слушай такую какофонию.

[@JacobEssell]

Aerials by SOAD?

[@deafidue5535]

why are the subtitles also in welsh

[@DS-wk9gb]

At the beginning it says the video was made by the National Museum Wales

2:04 oh herro

[@xabierrodrguezgonzalez8213]

CALVOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@OmarLuna1981]

2:30 Early Pink Floyd ancient Rome version.

[@wilsonmathew7168]

what is the name of the harp-like thingy at the start

[@potat-o-o]

Lyre or lira

[@viarnay]

Listening to the kithara make me realize that ancients romans had no ears :- s

[@ektoras9924]

Half of these organs are Greek.

[@pauljmeyer1]

Surely the Romans had more style and would have had their instruments prepped to deliver a better sound.

[@JustbeJealousHD]

This is sad

[@bekf2240]

None of these people know what they're doing. It shows.

[@margaritazagorska371]

😘😜😂😁😂😁😂

[@stevecochran9078]

Gracchus something more cheerful.

[@BlobbyBee]

K

[@joewilson3575]

Pfft Wales

[@whukriede]

I'd guess they were better.

[@a50royalstar]

I find it a bit ridiculous how weak these people play on these instuments. These instruments have far more potential. If you check youtube for "Cornu de Pompeii" with Abraham Cupeiro you will understand.

[@whiteknightcat]

This was horrible. But then ... they got their rocks off watching people die too.

[@whiteknightcat]

Somebody needs to hook up the blonde chick with Zamfir.

[@augustmarshall2961]

The Romans had a shit Spotify playlist.

[@BOIZADAS]

Proper Cornu kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3rPi5qgZ6t0fqM

[@Shinbaal99]

Thank you kind sir! This saved me from hating the Cornu

[@antoniescargo1529]

Frisia non cantat 😮

[@bluegent7]

I understand achieving Roman standards is too much to ask for. Thankfully, practice makes perfect. Come back in a year or so, chaps. Addendum: Whether they were musicians or not is irrelevant. They were signalists, and they had to be really good at it, that is, knowing the codes, and giving clear, definite, specific and strong sounds. Commanding many thousands of people with different roles and specialties under ever changing circumstances, with the necessary precision, is complicated. Besides, war is a matter of life and death. Furthermore, the Romans were experts at ruling the world. So the signalists _had_ to be skilled at their jobs. Also, they were likely more intelligent and competent than many of us in this comment section. Plus, much more brave and powerful. No need to think we're on a higher level than they were.

[@kaziiqbal7257]

Knowing codes required and still requires just as much practice and skill as being a musician. Early orchestras borrowed trumpets from the army because they can piece together something that actually sounds good.

[@kaziiqbal7257]

Basically, signalists had to be good musicians because that’s literally where we get our modern concept of good musicians.